Example sentences of "of [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tale ( Off Piste ) of salvaging a dismal winter season with a superb day in April will arouse the jealousy of many a jaded ice-man of late . |
| 2 | Kenneth Baker echoed the views of most MPs in a Commons debate in 1990 : ‘ If the concept of British justice is to mean anything , we must retain the possibility of rectifying a mistaken verdict . |
| 3 | Tact is the skill of handling a difficult person or situation without giving offence . |
| 4 | Thus instead of articulating a justificatory art , he chooses to question the myth of art itself . ’ |
| 5 | For them there is a needless , lifelong fear of encountering a strange cat , a fear that sometimes ends with them refusing to go out of doors at all . |
| 6 | The government accused Escobar of masterminding a double car bombing in Bogota on Monday which killed four people and injured dozens more . |
| 7 | The development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning , because the bird learns its song by comparing it with a template rather than because of any consequence of singing a better chaffinch song . |
| 8 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 9 | Once the land had been expropriated , it was to be turned into cooperatives but , because the government felt it would be difficult for peasants , who had had no previous experience of administering a large farm , to move straight to a cooperative , there was an intermediary stage . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , he was discharged at the preliminary inquiry on charges of administering a noxious substance , namely semen , and committing a common nuisance . |
| 11 | ( The offence would be one of administering a noxious thing with intent to injure or annoy contrary to s.24 of the OAPA . ) |
| 12 | There are also problems with this definition of " inflict " in s.20 with regard to s.23 of the same Act , which creates the offence of administering a noxious thing " … so as thereby to inflict … any grievous bodily harm … |
| 13 | As we have seen ( Chapter 3 ) , Cunningham [ 1957 ] 2 QB 396 held that on a charge of administering a noxious thing under s.23 of the OAPA recklessness was defined as : did the accused himself foresee the consequence ? |
| 14 | ‘ They do not have the responsibility of administering a cash-starved council . ’ |
| 15 | Accordingly every politician was confronted with the sometimes unpleasant duty of suggesting a suitable replacement for a deceased minister after a delicate balancing of the claims of potential candidates . |
| 16 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 17 | Instead of using a fixed percentage , Cubbin and Leech argue that a shareholder or group of shareholders can be regarded as having control where it is likely that they would win a contested vote , but that this can be determined only by examining the degree of dispersal of shareholdings within the individual company concerned . |
| 18 | So that 's one one benefit of using a visual aid is to is to put a point over er much more quickly . |
| 19 | Instead of using a facial oil you might prefer to ‘ doctor ’ an unperfumed face cream or lotion ( preferably a ‘ natural ’ product ) with the appropriate oils for your skin type . |
| 20 | Her idea of using a private pool had become a compulsion . |
| 21 | An interesting little problem often occurs in the early days of using a new program — fumble fingers . |
| 22 | In this study we have taken advantage of using a complete modification system , the X.laevis oocyte , being aware of the fact that yeast tRNA in this heterologous system will get a modification pattern that reflects the properties of the X.laevis modification enzymes . |
| 23 | Quite apart from the habit of medieval monarchs of using a restricted number of names ( e.g. , Edward in England or Alfonso in Spain ) , it was not unusual for ‘ posthumous ’ coinages to be made in the name of a previous king . |
| 24 | Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected . |
| 25 | For both traumatised hair and hair in good condition , get into the habit of using a wide tooth comb with rounded tips or a good quality brush . |
| 26 | Graduations on the side of the cylinder show him exactly how much chemical has been sucked out , and there is none of the fuss of using a measuring jug . |
| 27 | It was a case of using a magnifying glass and working it out from there.We asked experts for advice , but they did n't agree . |
| 28 | The sponsor of the project must evaluate offers and calculate the total cost of using a selected finance package and compare it with the cost of other sources of finance . |
| 29 | Do n't be afraid of using a code-driven package if this provides the fine control you need . |
| 30 | This idea of using a homoeopathic potency of a poison to counteract the effects of that poison — in other words , isopathy — has been extended to study the effects of potencies of mercury in mercury poisoning . |